How to Setup Lynis Linux Auditing Tool on CentOS 6.2/CentOS 6.3

Lynis is a free and open source auditing tool for Unix-based operating system. It will provide report and makes suggestion after it scans the system and detect general system information, installed packages, configuration errors and security issues. Lynis aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. Follow this steps to setup Linux Auditing Tool on CentOS 6.3.

8. To start Lynis with full system scanning, define a –check-all or -c option to begin scanning of your entire Linux system. It will prompt you “[ Press [ENTER] to continue, or [CTRL]+C to stop ]” for every process that it scans.